New King James Version

Isaiah 38:18-22 New King James Version (NKJV)

18. For Sheol cannot thank You,Death cannot praise You;Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

19. The living, the living man, he shall praise You,As I do this day;The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

20. “The Lord was ready to save me;Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”

21. Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

22. And Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”